Monthly Archive for November, 2006

: November, 2006

At Cascade Bicycle Club we spend a fair amount of time reviewing development and transportation projects, some of which neglect the needs of bicyclists and pedestrians. The argument we hear in many of those cases goes like this: “People will never get out of their cars.” …

The San Francisco Bike Coalition and the citizens of that fine city are no doubt bummed after learning their bicycle plan may not make additional physical improvements to the cityscape until they conduct an environmental impact review or become exempt from their state environmental review process. …

Just a quick note to remind bicycle commuters to get a white light (preferably with a “blinking/flashing” mode) on the handlebars or a helmet-mount in conjunction with a blinking red light on the back of the bike or helmet. It’s so important to your safety as well as others’. I should also mention that it’s the law in King County to have an operating white light on the front of your bike and a red reflector on the rear. It’s an $80.00 fine to be cited without one, and that cash could buy some pretty sweet lights. …

Here’s the deal with bike locks…cable locks aren’t worth a damn. Almost every bike on our website’s Stolen Bike Report has been “secured” with some sort of cable lock. It doesn’t matter if the cable is thick enough to stop a carrier jet from landing on a flight deck…thieves can cut through it like kite string with a pair of bolt-cutters. …

You may have heard about the concept of a land swap between the Port of Seattle and King County. The crux of the deal is the exchange of the BNSF rail corridor from Snohomish to Renton for Boeing Field. The rail corridor would be redeveloped as a multiuse path and railbanked under the National Trails System Act; Boeing Field would be managed by the Port of Seattle. …